• 16:58 Safely back in the Twin Cities after a 9-day vacation in Atlanta. It's cold here!
• 22:23 Chick-fil-As were 3x more common than McDonaldses in the South. (And Tiwtter ate my last post.)

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We are back safe and sound from our 9-day vacation in Georgia, hooray hooray. We flew down for righteousson's wedding, but Phil had enough built-up vacation time that we were able to make a real vacation of it. There are many pictures. There will be more detailed travelogues later. For now, these are the things I learned about the Atlanta region ( Read more... )

Phil and I both slept in very late. My excuse was being sick. Phil's was recovering from the bachelor party. ;) We spent the day lounging around, watching TV, and enjoying not having to do anything.

That night, we treated righteousson to dinner at Nava. His wife-to-be was unable to join us because she was, quite naturally, going insane with trying to change ( Read more... )

I am still sick. Where Phil was healthy by this point, for me, the cold has moved to my lungs, where it is not welcome. This is especially vexing because I am On Vacation, and want to do stuff, if only I had the energy ( Read more... )

* My count seems to have gone off early on.

Friday was a non-existent serpentarium, a hotel that comes with its own tourist attractions, another jade factory, some shopping, some more ruins, and the groom's dinner.

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Betcha thought I was done with the long Antigua updates, didn't you?

You were wrong.

Phil was feeling better by Thursday, so we went to an entirely destroyed convent, a textile museum, a jade factory, and a saint's tomb.

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For the end of Tuesday and all of Wednesday, there was much lying in bed and not feeling well for Phil. He did manage to finish reading Vicesteed all the way through! For me, there was much reading of the books I brought (the last ever Harry Potter book, Peter F. Hamilton's Fallen Dragon and Pandora Star) and playing of Ashen on my free n-Gage. ( Read more... )

Urf. So now I get to try and write up the last part of our trip in Guatemala way after the fact, just because, well, we got lazy and/or busy.

On Tuesday, Phil got sick, and we saw a colonial museum and the ruins of the convent attached to La Merced.

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Going through the paper paraphernalia of our trip to Guatemala, I was amused to stumble over this brochure for tours in Antigua.

Eight different tours
to know & enjoy more
your stay in La Antigua
Guatemala

Terraces
spiritual
earthquakes
artistic
gastronomic
fotografic
museums
shopping

www.alacartatours.com

On our last day in Guatemala. We fly out tomorrow and will be home super-late Sunday night. Most of today was spent running around shopping for Christmas and wedding presents for people. Soon we´ll be off to the wedding that was our reason for coming here. Tomorrow morning early we´ll be driving into Guatemala City to the airport, and then it ( Read more... )